{"id":308,"date":"2009-03-05T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T08:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-03-05T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T08:23:20","slug":"odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Odds and ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things from the last couple of weeks that I haven&#8217;t updated yet here &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LabourStartJobs.org will finally close down this summer.\u00a0 We needed to give 6 months notice.\u00a0 Once this is closed, we can consider launching a free jobs board for trade unionists &#8211; this is something we might want to discuss this summer.<\/li>\n<li>UnionBook now has over 2,500 users though not all have confirmed.\u00a0 We continue to send out weekly mailings to all of them.\u00a0 In the last 7 days, we&#8217;ve picked up another 122 users.\u00a0 We have a list of things we want done to the site and have hired someone to do these things.<\/li>\n<li>The ActNOW wire in French has been fixed &#8211; this is part of a whole bunch of problems we&#8217;ve had after we converted LabourStart to Unicode without waiting for the rest of the trade union movement to join us &#8211; meaning that we&#8217;ve had to re-convert some of our content back to earlier formats to display properly on union websites.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve submitted a proposal to Unite, the largest union in the UK, asking for support.<\/li>\n<li>The link to show more news for individual countries now works properly in all languages.<\/li>\n<li>Having written our first script that can read the UnionBook database &#8211; it shows the size of the various groups &#8211; we can now do much more.\u00a0 We can create our own tools to monitor and administer the system.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve submitted a draft early day motion to the British House of Commons regarding UnionBook &#8211; this will probably be introduced in the next few days.<\/li>\n<li>The Labour News Network in its most recent incarnation (Jottit) has now been closed down.\u00a0 UnionBook replaces it.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll shortly begin selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mupress.co.uk\/products.asp?recid=295\">this book<\/a> &#8211; waiting for final confirmation from the publisher.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re exploring moving our campaigns from the existing 1&amp;1 server &#8211; which could not handle the most recent flood of participants &#8211; to our new dedicated server which we use for UnionBook.\u00a0 This should solve the problem.<\/li>\n<li>NoSweat Apparel in the US has offered to produce UnionBook t-shirts which we will shortly begin selling.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s probably more, but I can&#8217;t remember it all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things from the last couple of weeks that I haven&#8217;t updated yet here &#8230; LabourStartJobs.org will finally close down this summer.\u00a0 We needed to give 6 months notice.\u00a0 Once this is closed, we can consider launching a free jobs board for trade unionists &#8211; this is something we might want to discuss this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,3,16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}